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Verve was acquired by MGM Records in 1961 for $3 million. In the seventies it became part of the Polygram group.

1 List of early Verve artists

1.1 Instrumentalists

• Coleman Hawkins
• Charlie Parker
• Count Basie
• Duke Ellington
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• Gerry Mulligan
• Buddy Rich
• Gene Krupa
• Illinois Jacquet
• Art Tatum
• Flip Phillips
• Teddy Wilson
• Russell Malone